4 minutes agoEU, eurozone unemployment rise
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)Unemployment in the European Union and the euro area rose in July, but remained above average in the two areas, which exceeded the outbreak of the coronary pandemic, a Eurostat report indicated on Tuesday. The seasonally regulated unemployment rate, measured by the methodology of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), increased in the Union [...]
The seasonally regulated unemployment rate, measured by the International Labour Organisation's methodology (ILO), increased to the European Union to 7.2% in July, up from 7.1% in June.
The same month last year was 6.7%. In the eurozone, it was higher for 0.2 percentage points and reached 7.9%, the European Statistics Office estimated.
He stayed at 7.5% last July.
A total of 15,184 million people were unemployed in the European Union in July, of which 12.793 million in the Eurozone.
Compared to June, their number in the EU increased by 336 thousand and in the euro area by 344 thousand.
So far the highest unemployment rate in July was in Spain, with 15.8%, Italy 9.7 and Sweden 9.4%.
The Czech Republic had the lowest unemployment rate among EU countries, with 2.7%. The unemployment rate was higher in July than in June to 12 EU countries, falling to seven while unchanged in five.
Statistics office has no record of Estonia, Greece, Hungary
